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The US govt formally issued an apology and reparations for their actions in the Japanese American internment camps. Nazis also confiscated Jewish private property during their rise to power. This is who you think the US should emulate?

unlike chinese nationals that don’t inject major dollars into the US economy buying luxury goods, cars, paying full fare tuition, etc etc. /s I’m no fan of foreign cash buyers driving up real estate prices and contributing to lack of affordability for domestic buyers, but to say the US govt...

I guess Mexico, Canada and European countries should do the same to US citizens owning property abroad in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs.

The system compares asians against other asians, or other students at their asian majority high school, so it is fostering this toxic competition, because parents feel their kids are competing just for the spots allotted to asians, because there are set asides for the other demographic...

what’s sad is that the current system encourages Asian Americans to view each other as foes/competition and sows division, as opposed to other minority groups which are encouraged to stand together with solidarity.

regarding the UCs specifically, since they are test blind (no SAT or ACT), weighted, capped UC GPA along with certain factors like performance relative to the peers at your specific high school, being low income or first generation college student are given much greater weight. If your focus is...

your kid may have a harder time getting into a selective college from IUSD versus a less competitive school district, but they will be very well prepared to actually succeed once there. As opposed to going to an easier high school, and then not being prepared to handle the rigor/pace of a...

These shared mailstations are more secure because they lock. Also there is a package locker that locks. I prefer this set up to when I lived in an older section of Irvine where each person had their own mailbox in front of their house and there was repeated mailtheft from unlocked boxes.

Should American citizens be allowed to buy cheap houses in Italy, Portugal and Spain? Should Americans be allowed to buy cheap houses and retire in Mexico and Thailand? Maybe poll the natives who are being priced out...

shows their priorities...

the solution (but one that likely will never pass) is a school bus system.

No, it was always intended to eventually be a K-8. Residents had to fight for it to open the K-5 portion in the early days of OH. Either the builders pulled a fast one on you, or you didn't do your due diligence. Most people consider it a good thing to have a continuous K-8 in the neighborhood.

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Washington State, west of the Cascades. Been longing for cool, misty green landscapes.  But not a SoCal native, so never really got used the arid, near desert like climate here. Don't mind the rain, find it refreshing.

How did you know that she was 1. Chinese and 2. From the mainland? Did you talk to her and ask, or did you assume based on her appearance?

I?m curious as to why you are categorically steering clear of all Catholic schools?

anyway, regardless if it?s over-hype or not, as long as people buy into the idea of Irvine schools, it?s protective of your property value if you buy here, even if you decide to send your kid to private school.

this is an issue that is not unique to Irvine, but to public education in California and the nation as a whole?case in point, the Ca proposed math curriculum to eliminate all math tracking until 11th grade, similar proposed changes to virginia math curriculum, proposals in Palo Alto to limit...

There?s a fire in Riverside county and Santa Ana winds blowing it over to Orange county

Yeah, but even after taxes that is 150k for doing nothing other than holding a spot. More than some people earn in a year working full time. SMH